My dear friend Jason Cohen hooked up show at Roll Up, an intimate gallery which is part of the popular Public Works in San Francisco. I'm working like crazy on a cluster of these little God's-eye hearts which will accompany some prints & work by other amazing Bay area artists.

The evening will also include Jason's awesome drawing party event in the massive space upstairs, so you creative types be sure to show up like bosses with your Microns & Moleskines. Going to be an amazing night!

The big vinyl banners produced for the wonderful GetUp Gallery at July's legendary Camp Bisco festival are now available as a limited run. These monster near-original sized prints are sure to light up any space!

There are also a few prized signed blotter prints left, after what we've come to lovingly refer to as "boingboing madness" happened earlier this summer. It was quite exhilarating sending all those potentially contraband prints through the U.S. post office out to all their new homes!

Thank you everyone for the support, and special thanks to the always awesome boingboing.net.

One of the many cool things about Oakland is the inherent 'unofficial recycling program' in place concerning junk left on the sidewalk. Anything from decent couches to battle-worn entertainment centers get left out on the street all the time (almost on a daily basis in this neighborhood). This doesn't much depreciate the city's natural beauty however, as the items tend to be left in an orderly "take me" fashion, and are usually whisked away by hopeful new owners within hours. My humble contribution to this fascinating system of re-use is to make paintings out of the various broken materials and wooden panels I find walking home. Sometimes upon first glancing at an old worn-out dresser, it's as if a completed image comes to mind in a flash, vibrant and alive, commanding it's life be acknowledged and the work carried out... haven't found a way to turn down psychic assignments from discarded furniture, so the new canvas comes home and it gets started.

The result can be a unique piece of art, hopefully embodying some essential sliver of impermanence, the profound actuality that every form changes and changes. Hopefully this relays how the process can be beautiful.
It can be rewarding to observe and participate in the (re)cycle of existence this way - try it yourself!
All you need is some gesso and a little of your precious time.

Our dear friend Zita commissioned this painting, expressing only that the title should be "The Goddess of Creation". After a year of work and revisions (and probably too much fretting over the golden ratio) the completed piece arrived in her loving home this spring.

For the ancient Greeks, Creation was the child of Chronos and Ananke, or Time and Inevitability. Here she emerges from a cosmic egg, gently brandishing a lotus of divine inspiration in one hand while using the other to self-generate into physical form. She sings as she arrives, and a tiny perfect being, a delegate angel of the higher Self, materializes in her heart to witness in calm compassion.
As Shiva's corpse lays beneath his beloved wife Kali, so the artist rests his weary bones beneath the Goddess, leaving behind only humble instruments once used in devotion to her. The dewy forest will consume the rest; nourishment for the sacred place where She, blazing and vibrant, arrives from darkness and gives birth to darkness.

♥ thank you Zita!

This summer was an extremely transformative one, containing the kind of earth-shaking life changes that provide us with that very precious, very short, list of what is really important in our lives. It would appear that eventually we're all subject to (or blessed with) such changes. Ram Dass has referred to these times as "fierce grace".
For me, these changes included moving from beloved New York back out to beloved California, with a renewed devotion to the love and art in my life. Whether it means living on peanut butter sandwiches indefinitely or not, I've claimed painting as a full-time profession.

I hope very much that this choice will reflect the beauty, compassion, support, and awakening I've been fortunate enough to experience. Thank you, deeply, to all the truly noble angels out there.
May we all work in the name of gratitude, and express our highest selves in this next exciting phase! May our efforts contribute to a great uplifting.

...consequently, I'm available once again to take commissions. :)
If you or someone you know has a vision that would be a good fit with my work, please email me with a proposal:froglickerpants@gmail.com